CFP: Faulkner and Whiteness (9/24/05; journal issue)
The Faulkner Journal
Call for Papers: Faulkner and Whiteness
Deadline: 9/24/05
Guest Editor: Jay Watson, University of Mississippi
Faulkner lived and wrote at a time when models of normative and deviant
identity were increasingly racialized, even as models of racial identity
were increasingly biologized. This is one among many reasons why whiteness
in Faulkner--and the whiteness of Faulkner--deserve our critical attention.
This special double issue of The Faulkner Journal welcomes submissions that
problematize the ostensibly unremarkable phenomenon of whiteness in
Faulkner's life and career. Topics could include, but are by no means
limited to, the following: